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For adolescent girls, early marriage or an unwanted pregnancy typically curtails schooling.
Delaying marriage and childbearing allows them to gain more education and perhaps more earning opportunities, as well as improved health, education, and labor market success for their future children – benefits worth ten times more than the cost of providing reproductive services.
The addition of the renminbi as a possible reserve option would free today’s lame ducks from their forced marriage.
It is against this background that Modi made his impromptu visit to Lahore (to attend celebrations of Sharif’s birthday and his granddaughter’s marriage), raising hopes among some that the bilateral relationship may be undergoing a genuine sea change.
The results have not only created a conflict between US federal law and state legislation, but also signal a shift in attitudes not dissimilar to that concerning same-sex marriage.
Germany’s new grand coalition – the third in Merkel’s long chancellorship – is a marriage of convenience: loveless, largely unloved, and devoid of any overarching vision.
Early marriage, sexual assault, a lack of sanitary facilities for menstruating girls, and humanitarian crises are just some of the factors that make completing an education more difficult for girls than for boys.
Like a doomed marriage, it is better to have rules for the inevitable divorce that make separation less costly to both sides.
Imagine further how, wherever homosexual relationships are lawful, the obstacles to gay and lesbian marriage would vanish if the state did not require the spouses to state their sex.
A new marriage law, for example, requires interfaith couples to register their intent to marry with local authorities, who will display a public notice of the engagement; only if no citizen objects to the union – highly unlikely in the present tense climate – is the couple permitted to wed.
He also adamantly opposes gay marriage, condones hate speech against LGBTQ people, and has been sanctioned no fewer than 30 times since 1991 by the Brazilian Bar Association for racism, xenophobia, and homophobia.
Evangelicals were brought in on the basis of so-called “family values,” meaning opposition to abortion and gay marriage, and promises of active government support for religious activities, including direct payments to religious groups for social services that they provide locally and internationally.
Carson has said, for example, that people enter prison as heterosexuals and come out gay; that America is like Nazi Germany in suppressing ideas and opponents; and that the president need not enforce the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision legalizing gay marriage.
As it stands, millions of girls are often forced to forego education for reasons ranging from poverty to household responsibilities to child marriage.
Those who considered love as the basis for marriage increased from 49% to 69%, while those who depended on parental approval fell from 41% to 24%.
At great monarchical displays, such as the royal wedding in London, millions become enthralled by child-like dreams of a “fairy-tale” marriage.
That often leaves girls with one option: marriage.
Marriage Counseling for America and EuropeDisputes between the United States and Europe are nothing new, as past tensions over Korea, Suez, and Vietnam demonstrate.
In 46 of 54 African countries, official tracking of vital statistics such as birth, marriage, and death is limited.
While his presidency has been widely criticized, it also had significant achievements: legalizing gay marriage, making France a party to the Paris climate agreement, and restoring some balance to social-welfare spending.
Decisions related to sex, marriage, and reproduction are out of their control.
The practice of child marriage is closely linked to sexual autonomy and health.
Marriage was now her only option.
And we must recognize the damage caused by child marriage, including to girls’ sexual and reproductive health.
Many of the organizations engaged in the Girls Not Brides global partnership to end child marriage are focused on tackling these issues.
I was swayed by talk of friends and elders about how once a girl undergoes “the cut,” she gains respect and grown men consider her suitable for marriage.
Only last month, in Narok, the town nearest my childhood village, a 13-year-old girl died after undergoing circumcision as a preparation for her marriage to a man who already had five wives.
The logic is compelling: if girls remain in school, they can avoid “the cut” and early marriage.
But the marriage between Chinese savings and American consumption had a fatal flaw: it created non-repayable debts.
Historically, the rich in each low caste emulated the customs and rituals of the upper castes, such as child marriage, the payment of dowries, and prevention of widows remarrying.
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